They would make a higher one still, and he would immediately win that too.

The time passed in such meditations, and when the teacher came, the lesson about the adverbs of place and time and manner of action was not ready, and the teacher was not only displeased, but hurt.

This touched Seryozha.

He felt he was not to blame for not having learned the lesson; however much he tried, he was utterly unable to do that.